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I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

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As if these daily humiliations and sacrifices mean something, are tallied by the ones who keep the books. Tomorrow we pick up where we left off. Sleep...more

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You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

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Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

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The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

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New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

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Why should anyone else have it easy. Spoken like a true New Yorker.

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You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount...more